Voice of Vision
Volume 3 Number 2 -- April 1995

Welcome to the April issue of Voice of Vision, GW Micro's quarterly
newsletter.  This issue includes a product review by Ron Faulkner
of Fairbanks, Alaska, this time on a popular Bible program.  Keith
Reedy of Terre Haute, Indiana has also contributed a review of
Calendar Creator Plus.  Michael Lawler, GW Micro product support,
completes his two-part series on computer viruses.   Doug Geoffray
announces Window-Eyes, GW Micro's new Windows screen reader. 
Crista Shaikh describes some of the new features of Vocal-Eyes 3.0,
due to ship soon.  Andy Seitz, the Circuit Rider, improves on last
issue's batch file. 

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Product Review
The Word Processor
by Ron Faulkner

Are you interested in a Bible program that is easy to use, fast,
and continuously growing?  Let me suggest "The Word Processor" by
Bible Research Systems.  I began using the program over ten years
ago on an Apple 2 E and flipped many disks!  Now I just push a few
buttons on a 486 IBM compatible machine and it is all
instantaneous!  It used to take an hour and forty-six minutes to do
a word search and now it may take only a second or two!  There is
some progress in this area!

Version 5, which I am using, comes with a menu bar across the top,
the scripture in the middle, and a status line at the bottom.  Page
up and down keys give you a new page of text.  Up and down arrows
will go up or down one verse at a time; however, you get to hear
all the other text over again.  Therefore, the manufacturers have
put a "synthesis" option in their set up area for putting only one
verse of scripture on the screen at a time.  So, if you want to
just listen to the text you may use a full screen of text, or if
you want to study each verse and do cross reference studies then
the one line at a time option cuts down very  much on extra
chatter.  Moving around in the Bible is as simple as pressing F5
and typing a 3 letter identifier of the book e.g. ROM for Romans,
JOH for John etc, the chapter and verse numbers and, of course,
pressing return.  

Word searches are as easy as pressing F6, typing the word that you
want, and pressing the return key.  All the verses in that
translation of the scriptures containing that word are now
contained in a library file and the first verse containing that
desired word is at the top of the text section of the screen.  The
next reference containing that word is accessible by simply typing
the space bar.

These are just a few examples of a very useful and multi faceted
program.  Actually, you buy a basic program and buy add-on
products, which, once installed, act just like they were all one. 
Some of the other products that are available include: the Strong's
Greek and Hebrew concordance and dictionaries, Bible Dictionary, a
cross or chain reference product, Vines and Matthew Henry's
commentaries, a chronological Bible, and more.

Depending on how many options you purchase, you may soon fill  the
hyperactive window load disk set options.  Therefore, you have to
start loading disk sets from disk sets, but it will work! 

Each Translation takes about 4 megabytes of hard disk space and a
minimum of 512K of Ram is necessary.  More information may be
obtained by contacting: 

Bible Research Systems
2013 Wells Branch Parkway, suite 304
Austin, TX    
(512) 251-7541

Now then, if you have the option of using a compact disk which is
capable of holding much more material, but is perhaps slightly
slower, then let me suggest the Bible Library which I bought
through DAK Industries.  It is put out by:

Ellis enterprises Inc.
3445 West Memorial 
Oklahoma City, OK 73134  
(405) 749-0273

This program requires 512K of Ram with 640 recommended and 1.2
megabytes of hard disk space, and a CD, of course.  

It is a bit more awkward to use than "The Word Processor" but that
may be because I have used it such a short time.  However, it
contains nine translations and twenty reference works which include
commentaries and Bible dictionaries, and costs only $30 or so,
compared to approximately $70 to $80 just for the basic program of
"The Word Processor".  Price wise, there is no comparison.  The
scripture is not as easy to read in this program with the voice
synthesizer but for studying purposes and the price it is difficult
to top.

I have forwarded my batch and set files to GW Micro as a starting
point for anyone who desires them.    

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Announcing Window-Eyes!
by Doug Geoffray

At long last I feel I can start talking publicly about Window-Eyes. 
As many of you know Window-Eyes is our screen reader for Windows
3.1 and 3.11.  We have been working on Window-Eyes for the past two
years but have purposely been keeping a low profile.  I was able to
show Window-Eyes last March at the CSUN convention in Los Angeles. 
Not only did we have Window-Eyes on the exhibit floor but I also
gave a one hour presentation to over 200 individuals.  The interest
and excitement relating to Window- Eyes were tremendous.  We had
very little lag-time during the show since everyone wanted to get
a taste of our new product.  The experience level of those wanting
to take a look ranged from those who knew nothing about Windows to
those who have been using Windows for some time with several other
screen readers.  Because of this varied base I was able to compile
a comprehensive list of comments.  This user feedback will most
certainly help in making Window-Eyes a better product.  Many people
are counting on us to produce as high a quality product as Vocal-
Eyes.  It is our intention to comply.  We will not release Window-
Eyes until it is ready.  We have features already incorporated
which existing Windows screen readers do not.  We also have
features incorporated which are just now being released in second
or third releases of other products.  We are committed to having
Window-Eyes be a top-notch product, even with release 1.0.

During the last week of March we offered a training session for all
of our resellers.  Although Fort Wayne, Indiana is not necessarily
the ideal get-away spot, we had fifty of our resellers attend this
training.  The feed back from our resellers was tremendous;  it is
amazing how many ideas can come from a group this size.  I believe
all the experience and feedback we have received so far will make
Window-Eyes a very strong and viable product.

Our philosophy with Window-Eyes parallels greatly that of Vocal-
Eyes.  The user interface, flexibility, and customability of Vocal-
Eyes have been proven over the years.  Because of this we decided
to carry on the tradition.  The Window-Eyes interface is extremely
close to that of Vocal-Eyes.  Vocal-Eyes users will feel right at
home when they start using Window-Eyes.  One question we had to
answer during the development was whether we should make Window-
Eyes look just like any other Windows application or look more like
the DOS Vocal-Eyes.  The general feedback I received is a definite
yes to both parts.  So how can we make Window-Eyes act just like
Vocal-Eyes and also like any other Windows application?  A simple
example would be as follows.  To pop-up the Window-Eyes control
panel you can either use the standard Windows ALT-TAB or CONTROL-
ESCAPE methods or you can use the standard Vocal-Eyes CONTROL-\
method.  When you want to exit the control panel, you can again use
the Windows ALT-TAB or CONTROL-ESCAPE method or simply press the
ESCAPE key to return to your previous application.  I talked with
individuals who felt strongly about making Window-Eyes act just
like Vocal-Eyes.  I also talked with individuals who would rather
Window-Eyes conform to the "standard" windows conventions.  I
believe our design methodology of supporting both modes will help
make Window-Eyes well accepted by both types of users.

Many items within Windows will work automatically with no
configuring required.  For example, all menus, dialog boxes, and
light bars can be spoken automatically.  However, if you want to
customize your application exactly to your liking, Window-Eyes will
help you.  Window-Eyes offers 10 standard windows, 40 extended
windows, 10 hyperactive windows, 46 assignable cursoring keys, and
over 90 assignable hot keys.  This should sound familiar to Vocal-
Eyes users.  Window-Eyes offers exception, character, key label,
mouse pointer, and graphic dictionaries.  The mouse is fully
supported both from the physical mouse and from the keyboard.  One
of the greatest features of all is that Window-Eyes works with your
existing Windows setup.  In other words, Window-Eyes does not
require any specific mouse, keyboard, or video driver.  This gives
you the most flexibility with other Windows applications.  There
have been times when it would have been easier to create a
proprietary driver.  However, we decided to take the extra time and
effort in creating other solutions.

I know this article is somewhat vague in its description of Window-
Eyes features.  It is extremely difficult to describe all the
features and flexibility it offers here.  We do offer a Window-
Eyes brochure which gets a bit more specific.  We will also offer
a demonstration version once we go into production.  Actually, this
brings up the number one question...When will we be shipping?  My
first response is...Not until its finished.  However, this rarely
satisfies the person asking the question.  Currently our goal is to
be shipping by late June.  Window-Eyes will sell for $495.00.  You
can purchase Vocal-Eyes and Window-Eyes as a package for $795.00. 
If you are currently a registered Vocal- Eyes 2.2 user you can
upgrade your Vocal-Eyes to version 3.0 and receive Window-Eyes for
$250.00.

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Product Review
Calendar Creator Plus 5.0
By Keith Reedy

Have you been looking for an inexpensive calendar program with lots
of features that talks well?  Well, I have and I found one. 
CALENDAR CREATOR PLUS 5.0 for DOS may be just what you are looking
for also.

First of all, the Event screen holds the key to a lot of
information; birthdays of presidents, actors and actresses, famous
military and scientific leaders, TV personalities as well as phases
of the moon and holidays for just every day ordinary people.

The Add Event screen allows you to create your own calendar, gives
you up to 50 spaces to name your event and then allows you to put
in the date, time, priority and whether this will be an event that
takes place weekly monthly, yearly or just once.  Once your events
are entered, they are displayed in an easy to read list.  It also
includes a handy quarterly calendar which can be accessed from
practically any place in the program.  

We have provided the .SET files for this program to GW Micro, and
they are now available on the Bulletin Board.

CALENDAR CREATOR PLUS 5.0 for DOS sells for about $50.00 and can be
ordered through your local computer store.  I use it every day and
I am quite pleased with it.  

Keith Reedy, Director
BIBLES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY HANDICAPPED INTERNATIONAL

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More on Batch Files
by Andy Seitz

After trying to decipher other people's handiwork I resolved to
document  all my batch files to allow others to follow my thoughts.
Some time ago while looking at the results of a CHKDSK command, I
discovered that each file allocation unit took up 2048 bytes.  I
decided that my batch files could then be 2k long and not use any
more hard disk space than the short ones.

In my batch files, the first line is:   
@ECHO OFF

This is followed by a remark:
REM  Name and purpose of batch

a blank line:

the correct drive:                      
C:
the correct directory:                   
CD\VOCAL          
and then the commands.

I insert blank lines to visually separate the sections and make
ample use of labels, tabs and indents to let the various sections
stand out.  With this in mind, I proceeded to amplify on last
issue's RATE.BAT and here are the results. 

(Begin batch file)
@ECHO OFF
REM RATE.BAT  915 bytes  2-22-95 1026p   
REM Batch file to set screen and/or key rate for all .set files
(blank line)
c:
cd\vocal
(blank line)
:TEST
     if "%1"=="" goto HELP
     if "%1"=="/?" goto HELP
     if "%1"=="?" goto HELP
     if "%2"=="" goto SCREEN
     goto BOTH
(blank line)
:SCREEN
     echo screen_rate=%1 > c:\dos\temp\speed.txt
     goto SETSPEED 
(blank line)
:BOTH
     echo screen_rate=%1 > c:\dos\temp\speed.txt
     echo key_rate=%2 >> c:\dos\temp\speed.txt 
(blank line)        
:SETSPEED
     echo setting speed . . .
     c:\vocal\text2set c:\dos\temp\speed.txt c:\vocal\*.set > nul 
     del c:\dos\temp\speed.txt
     goto END
(blank line)
:HELP
     echo RATE.BAT sets screen and key rates in all .set files.   
     echo syntax is   SPEED X Y  
     echo where X is screen rate and Y is keyboard echo rate.     
     echo if Y is omitted, keyboard rate is not changed.
(blank line)
:END
     c:
     cd\
(end of file)

Several features to note include the HELP section to look like the
MS_DOS 6.x help features.  I also try to eliminate any errors by
specifying full path and file name where ever there might be any
confusion.  Another item to note is the use of the "TEMP" directory
which I have located as a child of the "DOS" directory.  One of the
reasons I locate directories such as TEMP, DOCFILE, and DATAFILE as
a child directory of the main program directory is to keep my
directory listings to one 25 line screen.

WA7MDY -- Andy Seitz
d/b/a the CIRCUIT RIDER.

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Vocal-Eyes 3.0 Highlights
by Crista Shaikh

Yes, it's true!  Vocal-Eyes 3.0 is being released in April 1995. 
You probably have noticed that applications are becoming
increasingly complex in the way they display information.  Because
of this, we've added a number of new, powerful features.  If you're
a Vocal-Eyes beginner, this means that many programs that don't
talk well with Vocal-Eyes 2.2 will now talk much better with 3.0. 
If you're a power user, you'll see many of the features you've been
asking for.  Here we'll touch on a few of the most popular changes.

If you feel you're a Vocal-Eyes beginner you'll want to try out the
new tutorial.  It includes a program on disk and a tape or print
explanation which work together to introduce you to basic features
such as box reading, light bar tracking, window creation, etc.

Users who don't feel comfortable with DOS commands will appreciate
the new INSTALL program which is being included on both the new 3.0
disk and the upgrade.  Users who prefer to make their own
directories and copy their own files will still be able to do that.

When you're in your word processor reading text wouldn't it be nice
if it said something like "Bold Text" when it encountered bold text
and "normal text" when it found normal text?  Vocal-Eyes now has an
attribute dictionary that lets you do just that.  And, if you don't
want the colors on the screen to distract you, this feature can be
turned off.

Are you a ham?  Are you in the habit of including numbers in the
middle of file names?  You might like the "Spell Alpha/Numeric"
option which is now on the Screen menu.

If you use the DECtalk PC, you've probably noticed a sometimes
annoying pause at the end of lines.  Vocal-Eyes now has a "Read
Paragraph Style" feature which will remove the pause.

Many programs that use light bars include one letter in another
color within the light bar.  With light bar turned to auto this was
no problem, but if you requested Vocal-Eyes to read the light bar
by using a hot key or a hyperactive window it would read only the
main color and omit the single character.  Vocal-Eyes 3.0 now has
an option to include this single character in the light bar,
whether it is situated to the left, to the right, or is contained
within the main color bar.

If you've been setting up your own .SET files for programs, you'll
be happy to know there are now twenty standard windows instead of
ten, each with its own definable hot key,  and twenty-six
hyperactive windows instead of the previous ten.  This should give
you some elbow room.

Have you ever used the float windows of Vocal-Eyes 2.2?  If you
thought they were powerful before, you'll like what we've done in
3.0.

The float window can still float relative to the light bar, the
cursor, a constant position, or a marker.  The changes lie in what
the window looks for relative to that starting  position.  Let's
look at a short example:

You may want to have a hot key in WordPerfect to read only the line
number.  This value is situated between the page and position
numbers, and you may not want to hear the surrounding information. 
The problem is that the line number "slides" back and forth on the
screen instead of being in a fixed location.  The position value,
which lies to the right of the line number, may be a very small
number such as "1" or a large number such as "10.71."  This shift
in size causes the line number to shift places on the screen.  So,
what you  want to do is look on the bottom line of the screen for
the character "L" in "Ln" and set the beginning of the window there
and then find the "P" of "Pos" and set the end of the window there. 
A float window can now do that.  If you have a situation in which
the edges of your window are delineated by specific colors, you can
tell your float window to set its parameters according to that,
too.  

Have you ever had a situation in which you only wanted a
hyperactive window to trigger when two different things appeared on
the screen?  Vocal-Eyes 2.2 hyperactive windows can only watch for
one thing at a time, but 3.0 hyperactive windows can be joined
together to watch for up to twenty-six independent items (try to
keep it to two or three, though, if you want to maintain sanity). 
A typical application for this might be cases in which you want to
hear a screenful of text read, but only if the word "Help" is at
the top.  To do this, you would set one hyperactive window to
trigger on any text change and then to check another window which
was watching for the string "help" before reading the window.

At some time you've probably wanted a hyperactive window to read
the current line, the field name, the cursor address, or do some
other Vocal-Eyes function that isn't listed among the hyperactive
window commands.  Now you can have a hyperactive window execute a
hot key.  What if you change your hot keys?  No problem.  The
windows read according to hot key number, so you can change your
hot keys to whatever you like without disrupting your windows.

While you are setting up all these high-powered hyperactive
windows, it'll be easy to lose track of what you're doing.  To
solve this problem, Vocal-Eyes can be told to speak messages to let
you know when hyperactive windows are triggering or when a new .SET
file is being loaded.  This makes managing hyperactive windows much
easier.

The clipboard feature in Vocal-Eyes has been greatly enhanced. 
There are now five clipboards instead of one.  Instead of always
having to mark the beginning of the block to be copied, you can now
press one letter to select word, line, sentence, or paragraph.  You
can also change the character which separates blocks of text.  As
in 2.2 the default is a carriage return, but in 3.0 it can be
changed to the character of your choice.  This is handy if your
mail program likes commas between recipient names, for example, or
if your communications program insists on spaces between  file
names.

Many other features which make life easier have been added.  The
"Load RAM Set" hot key has now been changed to the "Load Set" hot
key and will now load a .SET file from disk.  There is an option on
the file menu to show the name of the current application.  If you
want to set a hyperactive window to trigger on "Contains Attribute"
or "Does not Contain Attribute," you can use the color palette to
select the colors.  The "Any Window" hot key will now read
hyperactive windows as well as standard and float windows.  The
exclamation point in review mode pops up the control panel (in case
your keyboard can't manage a Control-\).  When you use the "Find"
feature in review mode you can now have Vocal-Eyes read the
character, word, or line on which it finds the target or it can
read from the cursor to the end of the line or report the cursor
position.  The Dragon version of Vocal-Eyes has undergone all the
same changes and some of its own.  It now reliably distinguishes
between Dragon boxes and other boxes, so it does not mistake the
WordPerfect 6.0 print menu for a Dragon message box.  Also, you can
disable the Dragon interface from the General menu.

Now you're asking, "With all these new features, how much bigger is
Vocal-Eyes 3.0 than Vocal-Eyes 2.2?  On most systems, Vocal-Eyes is
now about 1.5k larger!

How much is the upgrade?  If you bought Vocal-Eyes since December
1, this is a free upgrade.  Give us a call or drop us a line and
tell us you'd like to upgrade.  Be sure to include your serial
number and address.  If you've had Vocal-Eyes since before that
date and you have 2.2, the cost is $50.00.  If you're a registered
Vocal-Eyes user and you are getting Window-Eyes at the special
$250.00 price, you'll get the Vocal-Eyes 3.0 upgrade for free.  If
your version of Vocal- Eyes is older than 2.2, give us a call for
pricing. 

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How to Find and Eradicate Computer Viruses
by Mike Lawler

In my last article about computer viruses I described what viruses
are and how to identify them on your computer.  In this article I
will discuss the operation of two common computer anti viral
programs.  The first of these programs is called MSAV and it comes
with MS-DOS 6.0 and above.  The second of these programs is SCAN by
McAfee Associates.  This program is shareware, costing $25.00 per
year.

First, I will discuss MSAV and how to use it.  Before you use this
program you should make sure that it is installed on your hard
drive.  By default MS-DOS 6.0 and above does not install MSAV. 
Consult your DOS installation or upgrade instructions to learn how
to install MSAV.   Next, you should read the MSAV DOS help topic. 
You can do this by typing the command

HELP MSAV

which will display several pages of information about MSAV.  The
simplest way to use MSAV is to execute the following command

MSAV /A /P

This command will scan all of your drives accept for A: and B: for
viruses.  A summary of the results will be listed when MSAV has
finished scanning your system.  You can use the /C parameter to
make MSAV clean viruses that it finds.  Another useful parameter is
/R, which causes MSAV to place a report file called MSAV.RPT in the
root directory of every drive that it scans.  Their are two
drawbacks to using MSAV.

1. MSAV places a file in each directory where files are scanned.
2. MSAV is updated infrequently which might cause new viruses to be
missed.

The advantage of using MSAV is that it is included free with MS-DOS
6.0 and above.

SCAN by McAfee Associates is a shareware antiviral program that can
be downloaded from many BBS's including the GW Micro BBS at
219-484-0210.  To execute SCAN to scan all of your drives use the
following command

SCAN /ADL /ALL

This command will cause SCAN to scan all of your files on every
drive for viruses.  Add the /CLEAN parameter to clean viruses. 
SCAN is updated every four to eight weeks.  The current version is
2.20.

As I said in my last article for the best protection you should
make a boot disk with your access software, FORMAT.COM, FDISK.EXE,
and your antiviral software in case your computer gets infected. 
Some viruses, such as Monkey, are actually TSR's which prevent
removal if they are in memory, so don't Monkey around get busy,
make that boot disk, and get familiar with antiviral software
before you need to use it.

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General Hints
by Crista Shaikh

Getting Procomm Plus to speak interactively

Are you new to telecommunications?  Many communications packages,
for use with modems, have a feature that lets you tell the software
to display the incoming material in a manner which is friendly to
speech programs.  One such communications package is Procomm Plus
from Datastorm Technologies.  In Procomm Plus this feature is
mysteriously called snow removal (not actually a mystery, it is
really designed to keep "snow" or flickering to a minimum on some
monitors).  To enable this feature, press ALT-S while in Procomm
Plus.  This will give you the "Procomm Plus Setup Utility."  On
this menu, you can arrow up and down.  When you find "DISPLAY/SOUND
OPTIONS," press the enter key.  This will be followed by a new
menu, but this one does not allow you to move around.  Instead, you
must hit the letter of the option you wish to change.  In version
2.01, snow removal is listed as option "E."  You might double-check
that this is the case in your version by using the Vocal-Eyes find
command.  Once you determine what the letter is, press it and then
use the spacebar to toggle between "ON" and "OFF."  When you get it
in the "ON" position, press the enter key and then the escape key
to return to the SETUP menu and then use the arrow keys and enter
key to select "SAVE SETUP OPTIONS."  From this point on, everything
that comes to the screen from another system will be spoken as it
appears.

Finding lost files on your hard drive

If you have DOS 6.0 or greater, you should try out the /s switch on
the DIR command.  Try the following:

CD\
DIR *.COM /S

This will search your entire drive for all files which have the
extension "COM."  

The /s tells the DIR command to begin in the current directory and
to search for the specified files in all subdirectories below it. 
This could be very handy if you were to ever save a file in the
wrong directory and then not know where it had gone, farfetched as
this possibility seems.

Reading a document which doesn't
fit on the screen

If you use a word processor, you've probably had times when Vocal-
Eyes didn't seem to read the last word or two on each line.  Of
course, it could be that you've accidentally set your window to
exclude part of the screen, but it's more likely that the word
processor has allowed the text to run off the screen on one side. 
Many people are confused by this.

A standard sheet of letter paper in the US (and some other places)
is 8.5 inches wide.  If you use one-inch margins, you have 6.5
inches on which to print.  Many word processors choose to print
most documents in a font size of ten characters per inch.  This
means that you get about 65 characters on a line, give or take. 
The standard computer screen displays eighty characters across, so
a line of text to be printed on paper will fit easily.  If you
change to a font of a smaller size, say seventeen characters per
inch, you get more text on a line and some may not fit on the
screen.  Seventeen CPI with one-inch margins would result in about
a 110-character line.  Choosing a slightly larger font, say twelve
characters per inch, and narrower margins will give a similar
result.

But, you say, I haven't changed my fonts.  I don't even know how. 
We very often see this off-the-screen effect with scanned
documents.  Your OCR package, in an effort to maintain the look of
the original page, may be embedding font commands into the document
which are causing the text to be pushed off the screen.  It is also
possible that people with whom you share documents are selecting
these smaller fonts or narrower margins and giving these documents
to you.

How do you get Vocal-Eyes to read the entire line?  There are
several things you can do.  The obvious way would be to delete the
codes which cause the smaller font or to embed your own codes. 
However, you may have chosen the smaller font because that is the
way you want it to look when you print it.  If you don't want to
change the font, the simplest solution is to change the right
margin temporarily.  In most word processors all you need to do is
to move to the top of the document, set the right margin to
something large enough to cause a line length short enough to fall
below eighty characters (I usually choose three inches rather than
do the arithmetic), read the document, then delete the code for the
margin setting.

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Announcements

PCMCIA Synthesizer for Notebooks

We are excited about a new voice synthesizer GW Micro will be
handling.  We have worked out a deal with PulseData, a New Zealand
company, to handle their VoiceCard synthesizer.  VoiceCard is a
credit card size synthesizer built in the PCMCIA Type II format. 
This card is compatible with the latest generation of laptop and
notebook computers from major manufacturers.  PCMCIA was developed
to form a standard interface from one laptop to another.  Most
laptops produced today conform to this format.  With this standard,
you can now expand your laptop by inserting a small card in the
PCMCIA slot.  Previously you needed a proprietary card or you
needed to connect your device through a parallel or serial port. 
If you truly want a voice synthesizer which is portable, the
VoiceCard is an excellent choice.  No need to plug a synthesizer
into a parallel or serial port.  No need to charge up your NiCad
batteries.  Once the VoiceCard is inserted in your laptop's PCMCIA
slot, you are ready to go.  You simply connect a headset or
external speaker (both are provided) to the VoiceCard and load the
necessary software.  Aside from your PCMCIA drivers, the VoiceCard
requires only 28K of conventional memory.  The majority of the
VoiceCard software is loaded into extended memory.  The voice
quality is very good and easy to understand.  Both Vocal-Eyes and
Window-Eyes fully support the VoiceCard.  We are selling the
VoiceCard for $1,075.00.  However, until May 31, 1995 we are
offering the VoiceCard for $999.00.  If you are in the market for
a truly portable, responsive voice synthesizer, you may want to
consider the VoiceCard.  Feel free to contact us for more
information.

Notebooks at special prices

Have you been looking for a notebook to take to meetings or class? 
GW Micro has several Toshiba 1910 notebook computers in stock.  We
are offering these at the special price of $1495.00, including
carrying case, 200-Megabyte hard drive, and four Megabytes of RAM,
expandable to 20 Megabytes.  Each includes a type III PCMCIA slot. 
These are 486-33 notebooks which weigh six and one-half pounds. 
Although this price does not include speech, adding the VoiceCard,
Speak-Out, or DECtalk Express and Vocal-Eyes to these would make
them ideal portable systems.

If you can get by with a little less power, you might like the
Toshiba 1900, a 486-SX 25 MHz notebook with a 120-Megabyte hard
drive and four Megabytes of RAM for $1295, including the custom
carrying case.  We also have one Toshiba 1850, a 386-SX 25-MHz
notebook with carrying case for $1095.00.  This machine does not
have a PCMCIA slot, but does have a slot for the internal Sounding
Board.  Of course, it also has ports for an external synthesizer.

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We were saddened to learn on April fourth that Nick Rocco of NJR
Speech Systems had passed away.  Nick was well-known among our
users, especially those in Illinois and Missouri, and will be
missed.  We extend our condolences to his family and the rest of
the team at NJR Speech Systems.

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